Bug 885209 (CVE-2014-3499) - VUL-0: CVE-2014-3499: docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege escalation
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2014-3499: docker: systemd socket activation results in privilege ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-3499
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Major
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Assignee: Flavio Castelli
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/103104/
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Reported: 2014-07-01 08:30 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2018-12-14 15:09 UTC (History)
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Description Victor Pereira 2014-07-01 08:30:36 UTC 
CVE-2014-3499

It was found that the socket used to manage the Docker service was world readable and writable. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root.


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111687
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3499
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3499
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-07-01 22:00:23 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Flavio Castelli 2014-07-14 09:32:25 UTC 
Fixed with rev24 of the docker package.